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A. C, SMITH.

FLY NET.

` No. 289,038. Patented Nov. 27, 1883.

N. PETERS. Pmcrmhngnper. Wuming V:turen STATES PATENT Erica ALLENCLINTON SMITH, OF BETHLEHEM, PENNSYLVANIA.

FLY-NET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 289,038, dated November27, 1883.

Application filed August 11, 1882. (Model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern.:

Beit known that I, ALLEN C. SMITH, a citizen ofthe United States,residing at Bethlehem, in the county of Northampton and State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in HorseFly-Nets; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexeddrawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters andfigures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a plan view of a net constructed inaccordance with my invention; Fig. 2, a cross-section thereof; Fig. 3, adetail view' showing the manner of connecting the rib to the neck-strapand the end of the rib to itself by the same knot that secures thelashes; Fig. 4, a detail View illustrating the manner ot' forming theknot; and Fig. 5, a similar view, showing the position of the ribs whenthe net is in use.

The present invention has relation to certain new and usefulimprovements in that class of horse ily-nets in which the lashes areknotted to the ribs; and the object thereof is to improveA the manner ofconnecting the extremity of the ends of the ribs after being secured tothe neck and crupper straps; and it consists in extending the ribsaround and under the straps and fastening their ends or extremities tothe ribs by the saine knot that secures the lashes, as will be morefully described. and subsequently pointed out in the claim. f

In the accompanying drawings, A represents the lashes of a horsefly-net, knotted to the usual ribs, B, in the manner shown, the lashespassing through the holes a bin the rib, as more clearly illustrated inFig. 4. The ribs B are connectedto the neck and crupper straps (l D byrivets d, after which the ribs are brought around and under said straps,and their ends or extremities secured to the ribs by the same knot thatfastens the lashes thereto, the extremity or end of the rib having holesthat register with the holes a. b,- or they can be punched through witha suitable awl when the extremity or end of the rib has been turnedunder. The outer ribs have secured to their looped ends rings E, towhich is connected a breaststrap, F, having depending lashes e, toprotect the front of the horse. ing theends or extremities of the ribsafter being attached to the neck and crupper straps by looping themaround the same and fastening them by the lashes renders the ribs lessliable to tear from their fastenings than were they simply fastened tothe straps and their ends terminated at the point of attachment thereto.In the former case there is an equal strain upon the rib in oppositedirection from the point of attachment to the strap, while in the lattercase any longitudinal strain would be in one direction only, andconsequently the fastening would be more likely to tear out.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is

j In a horse y-net, the lashes A and ribs B, connected togethersubstantially as described, in combination with the straps C D, the ribsbeing secured thereto and extending under and around the same and theextremities or ends thereof fastened to the ribs by the same knot thatfastens the lashes, substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

ALLEN CLINTON SMITH Witness es R. J. DIEHL, HENRY S. SELLERs.

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